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Show 0it Persons Killed, Sixteen Hort. . Ssrious Disaster Occurs on Iron Mountain Railroad at Kimmswick, IV3o. Entire, Train, "With Exception of Last Sleopor, Derailed, Baggage Car Demolished. tu T 1MMSWICK, yMo: April 30. Eight 4 persons were killed and sixteen ln3urod today by the. wrecking of train No. 18 on the Iron Mountain railroad awickcs siding, ono mile and a half north of here, Dead: James Bailey, engineer. A. L. Gumpert, fireman. ( A. E. Taber, master mechanic Express Messenger Groat J. N. Ealy. Edward Blslbard, Dc Soto, Mo. Two unidentified passengers. Injured: J. C. Austin, conductor, St. Louis. Joseph Dalhaff, St Joseph, Mo. Jonn Casey. Rev. "W. F. North.- Harry Hamel. A. J. Dick, all of De Soto. Mo. William Leavltt, Chicago. " A. P. Vlck. Evansvlllc, Ind. Fred Ross. Ulrich Ross, De Soto, Mo. J. J. Howland, Little Rock, Arlt Pcnwick Deeruth, Junevllle, La, W. J. Lynch, Peoria, 111. M. D. Owen, Louisville. F. L. Merrill, St. Louis. There was a break-down last night of a freight train on the main line between be-tween the two switches of WIckes siding. sid-ing. Orders wore Issued for all north and southbound traips to take the siding sid-ing as the main line was blocked. J. C. Austin, the conductor of the wrecked train, declares that he read the order to Engineer Bailey and handed hand-ed a copy to him at De Soto, a few miles south of here. The train, however, how-ever, passed Kimmswick on Its Way north at a high rate of speed and either the engineer forgot the order of made a miscalculation as to his location, for the train struck the switch at Wlckcs at a speed of nearly forty-five miles an hour. The enirlno turned a summersault summer-sault and Englneor Bailey was' burled beneath tons of steel. A. E. Taber, master mechanic of the Iron Mountain system, who was riding In the cab, was also instantly killed. The baggage car was Hipped from the rails and landed In a ditch nearly a hundred feeet from tho scene of the wreck. B. C. DeGront, the express messenger, mes-senger, was taken from the wreck In a critical condition aWd Is not expected to live. After the bnggage car left the rails the smoking car and coach immediately imme-diately In the rear toppled to one side and were badly damaged. Four passengers passen-gers in the smoking car were killed and many of those in the coach were badly lnjured. One of the four sleepers was overturned, but the other thrco kept the rails and the occupants escaped without injury. |